Philosophy

Why Study Philosophy

Unit 1 Individual Project

Grislen Dominguez

Professor Stephen Ripley

Introduction to Philosophy – PHIL201

February 17, 2013

Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy responsible for the study of existence. It says whether the world is real, or merely an illusion. It is a fundamental view of the world around Metaphysics is the foundation of philosophy. Without an explanation or an interpretation of the world around us, we would be helpless to deal with reality (Landauer & Rowlands, 2001). What is real? In my point of view god is real and thus by far everything that exists today from human beings, animals, plants, planets, and galaxy, derives from god’s creation. The Bible states that the spiritual is more real than the physical, therefore; the word of god is a spiritual entity that, Jesus said, “The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life”, and in Luke 21:33 Jesus says, “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away”. These versus are comparing the spiritual vs. the physical. His words are spiritual, and the earth is physical. He stated that the spiritual will endure and the physical would dissipate. I believe there is such thing as a soul, yet, I am not a firm believer that the soul could survive outside of a physical body. In the bible, Genesis 3:19 says, “For dust you are and to dust you will return”. When a person dies, he ceases to exist. Death is the opposite of life. The dead do not see or hear or think. Not even one part of us survives the death of the body. We do not possess an immortal soul or spirit. After Solomon observed that the living knows that they will die, he wrote: “As for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all.” He then enlarged on that basic truth by saying that the dead can neither love nor hate and that “there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in [the grave].” (Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6, 10) Similarly, Psalm 146:4 says that when a man dies, “his thoughts...